This story is the second installment of a three-part series discussing major changes in popular music throughout the course of 2024. Today’s story focuses on the current state of rap music. This year ...

Here are 15 predictions for rap music in 2026. No, there won't be a breakout AI star in rap.

NICOLAI FELLA, AN MC who’s part of the Bogotá collective LosPetitFellas, has long incorporated blues, funk, and other experimental sounds into his music — but rap has always been the cornerstone.

Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...

Sung Eun Choi is redefining the boundaries of hip-hop and New Age music with heartfelt compositions and global chart success. From ‘Sad Piano’ to his latest release ‘Don’t Let It Stop,’ his work ...

It may be a reckless exercise to try and list 25 rap albums memorable for the controversy they induced. Since the mid-Eighties, after the genre slowly evolved from a mostly 12-inch medium to one where ...

Ask 10 hip-hop fans of different ages what the greatest year in rap music was, and you’ll get 10 different answers. Music consumption is a deeply personal endeavor, shaped by individual taste and ...

The news may indicate a dip in rap’s dominance in mainstream music, but the music publication has also changed its top 100 rules. Rap has officially dipped out of the top 40 songs on the Billboard ...

Ice has a bit of a bad musical rap ever sense its unfortunate connection with a certain early 90’s caucasian rapper, but it’s grown musically sense then. While listening to the Merzbox 20 times in a ...